Even today, many traditional Japanese crafts are practiced while seated on tatami mats, and the action of hand-turning aligns with the bodily movements rooted in such traditional living habits. Just ...
“While I want to protect my craft, it’s equally important that I’m not just solely focused on that,” he wrote in a recent email. “I also want to preserve the way we live as Japanese people, so to be ...
At the center of the circle is Eiko Araki, a master of the Sanuki Kagari Temari, a Japanese traditional craft passed down for more than 1,000 years on the southwestern island of Shikoku.
In these works, the artist has used the technique of foiling, which is used in Japanese painting and in traditional Japanese crafts. Gold or silver foil is carefully applied to glue to form the base ...
"Japanese puppets" redirects here. For the puppet states of the Japanese Empire, see Puppet state § Imperial Japan. Probably the first professional dollmakers were temple sculptors, who used their ...